Perila is a frequent guest to NTS, appearing on various shows between 23 January 2019 and most recently on 16 March 2022. Perila has been played on NTS over 160 times, featured on 169 episodes and was first played on 28 July 2018.

Born in St. Petersburg and based in Berlin, Alexandra Zakharenko aka Perila cut her teeth as in-house designer and programmer at the recently defunct Berlin Community Radio (BCR) before co-founding the Russian online station radio.syg.ma, which hosted one of her early productions on the ‘SYGMATURE’ compilation in spring 2019. Perila is also founder of WET (Weird Erotic Tension), an online community exploring ideas of sonic sexuality in podcasts mixing spoken word, poetry, ASMR and field recordings.